Mustafa
[mʊsˈtɑːfə]Meaning
arabic for "chosen", from iṣṭafā, "to choose"
Background Story
Mustafa is Arabic for "chosen", from the verb iṣṭafā, "to choose". It is one of the names of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and it is used as a given name and a surname in Muslim-majority countries, including Bengali, Kazakh, Kurdish, Persian, Tajik, Uzbek and Western African. Four Ottoman sultans bore it, as did Mustafa Kemal, also known as Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey.
Temperament
Variations
Mustafah, Mostafa
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